/sci/ - Science & Math

>>4061609
Awww, that's just a chimera. Simple cartilaginous fish, relative of the rays, guitarfish, sawfish, and sharks.

I did a deep night dive once and managed to find a ratfish, so I guess I can rightfully claim to have seen a chimera in the wild.

Don't be such pussies. Mankind has the technology to (temporarily) survive in some pretty crazy environments. This isn't to mention the fact that YOU ARE THE GREATEST SUPERPREDATOR ON THE PLANET. If Cthulhu tasted good and existed, he'd be calamari in a fancy restaurant by next week.

>>4026193
I'll admit that I haven't walked in the bathypelagic zone, but nobody has.

I've gone about as deep as a recreational diver can go and it's not really that big a deal. Just some decompression stops along the way.

As far as lovecraftian horror, I can't wait to see the biggest octopus in the world. I'm planning to visit some friends in Seattle this summer and I've already found a dive shop that'll get me close to the Pacific Giant Octopus. Octopuses are generally my bros, so it should be fun.

Granted, there may be something wrong with me. Sharks I've seen while underwater with my own two eyes: silky sharks, lemon sharks, bull sharks, great hammerhead sharks, scalloped hammerhead sharks, oceanic white tip sharks, tiger sharks, nurse sharks, raggedtooth sharks, sandbar sharks, caribbean reef sharks, atlantic sharpnose sharks

It's not all that bad. The bullsharks seemed almost like puppies, curious of who the hell we were.